Ok, not exactly the first one, but I hope it’s at least one of the most comprehensive and among the easiest to read. It’s posted at ConcreteCMS.com, the website for the company where I work as director of technology. Get the full story over there:

A First Look at OpenSocial
Answering Questions About Google’s Effort at Standardizing Social Network Widgets, and the Creation of Your First OpenSocial Widget

Who should read it? Any web developer who has any questions about OpenSocial; anyone curious about what OpenSocial brings to the table; and anyone who thinks its a death knell to Facebook applications. By the end of it you’ll know all about OpenSocial, and you’ll even know how to write a social widget.

Oh, and please, give me feedback.

As those who stumble onto this website can see, Electricstate.com hosts a few small projects, like the iPod bartender, and LinkFinder. Well, I’ve added another one to that mix. This one is called Patron Grid

What is Patron Grid? It’s a way, ala Million Dollar Home Page, for website owners to display those who have donated to their projects. It’s data file is a plain XML file, which is parsed – AJAX style – and displayed. A Wordpress Plugin is in the works. It will be freely available. In the meantime, if you want to hack around with something, the code is also available on the some page.

My favorite? Probably #4, which is table-less forms, by the always impeccable Peter-Paul Koch.

Will this article get me to finally write down my own list of the CSS tips and tricks I’ve learned, after being exclusive to CSS and (nearly) exclusive to table-free design since 2002? We’ll see.